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In dragon story the goal is to collect dragons. You can try to collect them all, but that's quite impossible. Some dragons are expired, i.e. there's no way to get them at that time. Furthermore, each dragon needs a habitat, and since there's a limit on habitat's, it's not possible to have them all: there are more dragons than there is habitat-room for.

But don't let that keep you from collecting (or at least try to) all the nice dragons you want: try collect the ones you like, rather than try to collect them all.

So, how can you do that? You will learn the very basics at the beginning of the game, but how do you get all those beautiful dragons that are not so easily obtained?

BREEDING
Not all dragons can be acquired through breeding: some can only be won in the arena, some can only be crafted in the Spell Shop, some can only be bought with gold. Some dragons have multiple ways to acquire them, for example, a Black Knight Dragon could be won in a tournament, or can be bought with gold.

Some dragons have a level requirement, i.e. you can only have a chance at breeding them when you're above a certain level.

Some dragons are very common, which means you breed them easily. Some are rare, some are super rare and Diamond-dragons are ultra rare.

If you're aiming for a certain dragon, look at the colours he has, and make sure the parents have those colours. Pink, Diamond, White, Black, and many other types (for example Egyptian or Fairy) split in separate colours.

Your dragons need to be level 4 before they can be used as parents. Levelling can be done at the Evolution Temple, once you've fed the dragon enough.

BOOSTED BREEDING
Boosted breeding costs 12 gold and enhances your chance to breed a rare, super rare or ultra rare dragon. Sometimes, for a limited time, it's as expensive as a normal breeding.

DIAMOND TEMPLE
You can buy the Diamond Temple at the market for gold. The Diamond temple gives you a higher chance at breeding Diamonds, but only has a limited time of 7 days it has effect. After that you need to re-activate it, which costs gold and again lasts for 7 days.

TOURNAMENT (iOS only)General information
Once you've reached level 30, you can battle in the Arena. Once you've reached level 32, you can participate in a tournament. When there's a tournament, you need to defeat 30 dragons to win the price. The Tournament price is a dragon, which usually can't be bred, but sometimes it can be bought for gold. Usually there is 1 tournament of 30 rounds every 2 weeks, starting on Tuesday 19:00 CET). There have been a couple of short tournaments, 12 rounds, which started on Friday.

For starting players it can be difficult to defeat the high level dragons, but you can always buy your victory (the Ultimate) at a price of 30 gold per round, or 12 gold when you're battling in the arena when there's no tournament. For me, it was the only way to finish the tournament when I didn't have that many good, high level dragons, and I still buy some of my victories. When you don't have many good, high level dragons, winning a Tournament-dragon (especially a Champion-dragon) usually highly improves your chances in a next Tournament.

A tournament has it's own thread on this forum and the whole list of opponents will be known there within the first days of the tournament: this way you can see in advance what rounds are going to be tough for you and if it's worthwhile to spend your gold. You always have a chance in defeating your opponent, but sometimes it's a very small chance. Since you can only battle once an hour (and healing your dragon costs 2 hours), you don't always have the time to try till you get lucky: sometimes it can take 10 hours or more before you defeat a certain opponent by chance.

If you know on forehand you don't have enough time to play and don't have enough gold to buy yourself through the tough battles, you might want to keep your gold and wait for the next Tournament.

Level and rarity matter, the higher and rarer your dragon, the better. Colour matters too. In each round you can deal 3 blows: 1 of them must be a critical hit, other wise, you'll lose.

A defeated dragon needs to be healed in the Healing Well.

CRAFTING(iOS only)
The Spell Shop can be bought when you've reached level 8. You can craft dragons here.

In order to craft items or dragons, you need parts or gems.
These parts or gems can be acquired as follows:
* trading your surplus dragons of level 4 or higher in the trading portal (for gems)
* quest outpost (for gems or parts)
* mine (for parts) You need to be level 45 to enter the mine and you get bombs from evolving your dragons in the Evolution Temple (there's not always a craftable dragon which requires parts found in the mine)
* arena (for parts) (there's not always a craftable dragon which requires parts won in the arena)
* asking your neighbors for Lotus Blossoms (feature in the spell shop itself)

Sometimes you need to craft gems before you can craft the dragon you want. In the Spell Shop you can also craft other things like decorations.

BUYING FOR GOLD
When you have no object selected, you see the market in the lower right corner. There you can buy the available dragons for gold. Decoration can be bought here too, usually for silver, sometimes for gold. Very few dragons can be payed for in silver.

SUMMONING (iOS only)
From time to time, there is a summoning. You can earn items by hatching dragons, harvesting food, questing a special quest and winning battles in the arena. Once you have enough items, the prize, usually a dragon, is placed in your storage. You don't need to place these dragons on your nest immediately.

WORLD EVENT (iOS only)
Basically the same as a Summoning, but it has more prizes, not only dragons, and a community goal.

If you gather enough items, you enlist in the community prizes, which means that if all players worldwide have collected enough items, more prizes are granted and placed in your storage.

ALBUM REWARDS (iOS only)
Once you start to collect your dragons, you get rewarded for having unique dragons. The first reward will be given when you have 5 unique dragons, the last when you have 50 unique dragons. You can obtain 3 different dragons, food, some decoration and some gold this way. These dragons cannot be obtained any other way.

VALUEPACK / STARTERPACK
When you play, you'll be regularly offered valuepacks or starterpacks which you can, for a limited time, buy with money. These packs usually offer a dragon and some food, silver or gold. At first it will be called "starterpack" and be offered at a very low price, for example: a good dragon, some food and silver for 0,99 Euro or 4,99 Euro. Be aware: you only get to buy the starterpack once! In my experience you can let the starterpack with a dragon you don't want expire, after a while you will be offered a new starterpack.
After your first buy, you will get valuepack-offers, of which the price usually will be around 18 Euro, which is often still up to 70% cheaper than when you buy it in the market.
Some dragons are only obtainable through these valuepacks and sometimes the offer is a dragon that has already been expired.

Spin-the-wheel
Sometimes, for a short period of time, there's an event where you can spin the wheel. You can get food, silver coins, maps and even dragons this way. With gold you can buy extra spins.

OTHER INFO
Timed events:
Most events are timed, which means you only have a limited time to complete the event. For example, a tournament usually lasts 6 days: if you don't win all 30 rounds by then, you won't receive the dragon. The remaining time is shown at the icon in the top-right of your screen. Mind you, all time is rounded up, so 25 hours will be shown as 2 days.

Neighbours:
You can invite and visit neighbours at the social-tab in your menu. You need to have their Storm8-ID, not the name of their island. They can ask you (and you can ask them) for mystic maps (required to expand) and lotus-blossoms (needed for crafting certain dragons). Responding to a request doesn't cost you anything.
You can also visit them and can tap dragons to play, which gives you a small amount of experience or silver coins. When they visit you to play with your dragons, you get an extra 250 silver when you collect silver from the habitat. Others can see how actively you visit your neighbours (your social rating) and neighbours tend to visit those with a high rating more often.

Silver:
Dragons make silver when they're in their habitat, some make a little, some make a lot. The higer the level, the more silver it makes, but some level 5 dragons make more silver than other level 10 dragons. You can use this to grow food, buy habitats, discover new areas, clear foliage, battle in the arena, sent a dragon on a quest, breed, buy decoration and even a couple dragons can be bought with silver. Habitats can only hold a certain amount of silver, so be sure to check in regularly to collect it all.
There are buildings that enhance the amount a habitat can hold.

Gold:
You can either buy gold, get it from a quest, or receive it from your neighbours as gift. You can only give 3 neighbours 1 gold, so be careful with this: usually it's a trade "you give me, I give you". Declining gold is never a good idea.
Regularly there is a gold-sale, at which the gold is offered at a discount price, usually 25-30% cheaper than the normal price.
(Almost) everything in the game can be skipped, enhanced, bought, sped up or won by paying gold. There are certain things that can only be bought with gold, so use your gold wisely. Be wary of "gold-traps": clicking too fast may result in accidentally spending gold.

An easy way to earn gold, is to participate in other Team Lava games when invited. Android-players will be rewarded with gold, iOS-players need to fulfil a simple quest on order to be rewarded.

Expanding:
As you get more and more dragons, you need more and more habitats and thus, more and more space. You can clear out the foliage (costs silver), but a lot of space needs to be discovered before you can clear it to make room. This requires Mystic Maps, which you can ask from your neighbours.
As you're discovered space grows, the new expansions will be more expensive.

When you've reached level 80, you can go to the mine (iOS only) for more expansion-parts. This requires Dynamite, which you become from breeding. This also costs silver and time.

Food:
Food is needed to level your dragons. Higher level dragons give more silver and have better chances in the arena. You grow food at the farms. This requires silver and takes time. Farms can be upgraded or bought upgraded.

Arctic Isles (iOS only)
When you've reached level 35, you can travel to the Arctic Isles, provided you have an Ice Age Dragon. On the Arctic Isles you can breed, feed and evolve dragons like on your normal island, only there are far less dragons and the hatching proces is different. The goal here is to have 10 different dragons on level 10: then you get Glacious the Ancient.

Goals:
Almost all dragons have their own goal and some goals have multiple parts. There are also goals that aren't dragon-related (for example: clear some debris). You don't need to hunt the goals, you can go after every dragon you like.

Dragon Stables (iOS only)
In the market you can buy the Dragon Stables for gold. When you buy it, it can hold 1 dragon, so it doesn't need a space in a habitat. You can upgrade it 4 times, at that level it can hold 25 dragons.
But I guess that, by that time, you're no newbie anymore!

I've started to make some lists for Dragon Story. I'm missing information as I started the list when I was at level 9. I'm also missing the bits I'm not up to. Any help to fill in the gaps would be greatly appreciated.

Spreadsheet:

Edit 12-13-13

1craxycajun has created a new spreadsheet: Message from her:

Due to issues with the spreadsheet for Dragon Story, I've changed over to the new google sheets that seem to correct all previous problems. All previous information including The Breed Tracking Chart has now been able to be put all in one place. The New Links are :

I will not be taking down the old sheets right away but I will eventually, but I will no longer be updating it. The Santa Dragon was the last data added to it. Anything new will only be added to the new spreadsheet.(above)

Old spreadsheet:

Originally Posted by 1crazycajun

New & Better Dragon Story-Guide Spreadsheets-

New Online Version-Dragon Story Guide & Link included to the Download page & a Link to the Breeding Chart also included on the New Spreadsheet.

The cost of upgrading a habitat appears to be the same as buying the larger one. So in effect you're paying more if you upgrade.

Dragon Food Costs/Level
1. 1
2. 4
3. 8 (new players will need to evolve in the Evolution Temple to get to level 4)
4. 20
5. 50
6. 100 (need to evolve in Evolution Temple to get to level 7)
7. 240
8. 500
9. 1000 (need to evolve to get to level 10)
NB. It takes five feeds to level up. 9615 food to fully evolve a dragon (this seems to be changed for the new Light Dragons - will post more when info is available)

Fire dragon (& coin bought dragons I think) & gemstone types & rainbow types & some special prize (LB, tales, etc) dragons - no trading
Common dragons - you get a random small gem prize based on one of their colors
Rare dragons with 1 color - you get two small gems for its color, and maybe a mystery prize (gem, scroll, dust or nothing).
Rare dragons with 2 colors - you get one small gem for each color, and maybe a mystery prize (gem, scroll, dust or nothing).
Rare dragons with 3 colors - you get one small gem for each color, and no mystery prize.
Super rare dragons with 1 color - you get two large gems for its color, and maybe a mystery prize (gem, scroll, dust or nothing).
Super rare dragons with 2 colors - you get one large gem of each color, and maybe a mystery prize (gem, scroll, dust or nothing).
Super rare dragons with 3 colors - you get one large gem of each of 2 color, and a small gem of the third color. No mystery prize.
Gold (producing) types - no trading
Diamond types - you get 2 dust and a mystery prize. Not sure if the mystery prize is restricted to the colors of the dragon (who would trade a diamond hybrid?)
Ultra rare dragons (non diamond) - no trading (as most of these fall under the special prize dragons classification)

note:
- If you have 99 gems then the trading options will automatically take this into account and won't give you more gems of that colour/size.
- I think the dragon level improves your chances of getting a mystery prize. I regularly get none for trading L4 dragons.
- Champions seem to be of black type (even though they split into black and red during breeding), some other special types like Olympus (Pink) behave like other base colors or their constituent breeding colors (ie. Gemini is black and green).
- Egyptian & Mytic type is yellow gems.
- Metal & Stone type is white gems.
- Royal & Cosmic is purple gems.
- Zodiac is black gems.
- Dino is green gems.
- Olympus is pink gems.
- Passion & Elemental cannot be traded.

Hey guys, starting a list of items you get from trading dragons. If you have a list post here.

Originally Posted by [S8] Elsa

We chatted with Game Design and Rainbow Dragons are not tradable. However, Diamond Prism is the exception to the rule because it's also Diamond. Diamond Dragons give different rewards like Nether Dust when traded, so the Diamond Prism is tradable to create additional opportunities to get these types of loot from them.

1-9-2013- Edit(KP)I have been told some information may be different than orignially posted. I wanted to share the new information .

Edit- some Dragons are giving different items.

Originally Posted by knj00

Is the trading thread in the Game Guide still being updated?
I have a list it:

*Dawntree Dragon can be traded for a large Pearl, large Emerald and a mystery box.
*Magic Dragon can be traded for one small Amethyst.
*Peacock Dragon can be traded for a large Amethyst, large Topaz and a mystery box.
*Virtue Dragon can be traded for one small Quartz.
*Naga Dragon can be traded for a large Quartz, large Emerald and a mystery box.
*Black Swan Dragon can be traded for one large Quartz, large Onyx and a mystery box.
*Night Dragon can be traded for one small Onyx.
*Night Elf Dragon can be traded for one large Onyx, large Amethyst and a mystery box.
*Mythic Dragon can be traded for one small Topaz.
*Atlas Dragon can be traded for a small Sapphire, small Emerald and small Topaz.
*Cosmic Dragon can be traded for one small Amethyst.
*Saturn Dragon can be traded for a small Amethyst, small Ruby and small Topaz.
*Eclipse Dragon can be traded for a small Amethyst, small Onyx and small Pearl.
*Fairytale Dragon can be traded for one small Topaz.
*Big Bad Dragon can be traded for a large Topaz, large Onyx and a mystery box.
*Cheshire Dragon can be traded for a small Topaz, small Quartz and mystery box.

Thanks goes to grondai for this list!!!

note: names highlighted in red have been confirmed.

Common Dragons

Light-Not tradeable

Life Dragon(Forest/Fire) one small ruby/Or one small pearl

Firestorm Dragon(Fire/Air) one small red ruby/or small topaz

Fruitful Dragon(Forest/air) one small Topaz/or one small emerald

Mist Dragon(Water/air) one small sapphire

Island Dragon(water/forest) small emerald

Charm Dragon(fire/magic) small amethyst

Poison Dragon(forest/magic) -

Coral Dragon(water/magic) small sapphire

Genie Dragon(air/magic) one small topaz

Fuzzy Dragon(light/forest) -small emerald

Winter Dragon(light/water)
One small pearl

Love Dragon(light/fire) one small ruby

Sunrise Dragon(light/air) small topaz

Luck Dragon(light/magic) one small pearl

Rare dragons

Four-Leaf Dragon-One small emerald, one small sapphire, one small Topaz

Moon Dragon-one small pearl , one Lotus Blossom, One small onyx

Night Dragon-one small onyx

Chocolate Dragon-One small pearl, one small emerald, one small quartz

Caesar Dragon-small emerald, small topaz, small pearl

Cupid Dragon-Virtue Dragon - one small Quartz.

Rose Dragon-Small ruby, Small emerald, Spell Scroll or one small ruby, one small sapphirem, one small emerald

Passion-cannot Trade

Leftheart Dragon- small ruby, small sapphire,
lottus Blossom

Rightheart Dragon-small ruby, small sapphire, lotus Blossom

Magic Dragon-one small amethyst

Origami- Small Ruby, Small Amethyst, Small Quartz

Tiny-small pearl, small quartz, Lotus Blossom/or small pearl, small emerald, small quartz

Fireworks Dragon-Small Sapphire, small topaz, Large Ruby

Eagle Dragon(air/fire) Small Ruby, Lotus Blossom , Small Topaz

Griffin Dragon(light/air)Lotus Blossom,Small Topaz, Small pearl

Fairy Dragon(Forest/air) One Small Topaz, Two Small emeralds/or one small topaz, one small emerald, lotus flower

Pegasus Dragon(light/forest)one small pearl, one lotus flower, one small emerald.

Turkey Dragon(fire/air/forest) small ruby, topaz, and emerald

Super Dragon(water/fire/magic) small sapphire, small ruby, and small amethyst

Virtue Dragon: Small Quartz(pink)

Laserlight Dragon(light/fire)1. One small pearl , one small ruby 2, one Scroll/or one small pearl,one samll topaz, one small quartz

Justice Dragon(virtue/fire) small Ruby, small pink quartz, small topaz

Wild Dragon(forest/fire)1. small emerald , small ruby, lotus flower

Mindvolt Dragon(air/water)1. One small topaz one small sapphire , one small amethyst

Serpent Dragon(water/forest)1. One small sapphire and emerald 2. Mystery box: scroll/ lotus blossom/ one small sapphire/emerald

Trickster Dragon(magic/air) One small amethyst one small topaz , one small sapphire

Athletic Dragon(fire/water)1. One small ruby ,one small sapphire ,scroll/ or one small ruby, two small sapphires/

Mirage Dragon(fire/air/water) One small ruby, one small topaz, one small sapphire

Wizard Dragon(water/magic)1. One small sapphire, one small amethyst , lotus blossom or one small sapphire, one small amethyst, one small topaz

Ice Cream Dragon(light/water)1. One small pearl , one small sapphire , one lotus blossom

Titan Dragon(fire/magic) 1. One small ruby , one small amethyst, one small ruby

Hypnotic Dragon(light/magic)

Familiar Dragon(forest/magic)1. One small emerald and amethyst 2. Mystery box: scroll/ lotus blossom/ one small emerald/amethyst

Aurora Dragon(forest/magic/water) One small emerald, amethyst, and sapphirelotus blossom/ one small pearl/topaz

Storm Dragon(water/air)1. One small sapphire and topaz 2. Mystery box: scroll/ lotus blossom/ one small sapphire/topazScarecrow Dragon(forest/air/fire) one small emerald, topaz, and ruby

Super-Rare Dragons

Passion Dragon- Not tradeable

Amber Dragon - one large Onyx, one large Topaz, and one small Ruby.

Naga Dragon-

Peacock Dragon-One large Topaz, One large Amethyst and one spell scroll

Atlas Dragon-One -One small sapphire, one small emerald, one nether dust

Easter Dragon-One large Topaz, One large Ruby, one small ruby

Honey Bee Dragon(air/fire)1. One large topaz , One Large Ruby, One Lotus Blossom

Dawntree Dragon - large Pearl, large Emerald and a mystery box.

Scorpion Dragon(fire/air) One large ruby ,one Large topaz ,Nether Dust

Snowman Dragon(fire/forest): 1. one large ruby, one large Emerald ,one small topaz

Parakeet Dragon(air/forest) 1. One large topaz one large emerald, one small pearl

Elf- 1 . Large Emerald. 2. Large Topaz. 3. Lotus Blossom

Clown Dragon(water/air)1. One large sapphire one large topaz, one small sapphire

Planet Dragon(fire/magic) large ruby , large amethyst , small ruby/or one large ruby, one large amethyst, one lotus blossom.

Landworm Dragon(fire/forest) 1. one large ruby , one large emerald, one small sapphire

Aether Dragon(water/magic)1. One large amethyst , One large Sapphire, one small emerald
or One large sapphire, one large amethyst, one lotus Blossom

Atlantis Dragon(water/forest)1. One Large Emerald, one large sapphire, one small sapphire/or large emerald, one large sapphire, one small ruby

Mistmoth Dragon(water/magic)1. One large sapphire , one large amethyst , one scroll or
One large sapphire, one large amethyst, one small topaz

Tusker Dragon(light/fire) 1. One large pearl , One large ruby , one scroll

Zombie Dragon(magic/forest) 1. One large emerald and amethyst 2. Mystery Box: Nether dust/ scroll/ lotus blossom/ one small or large amethyst/emerald
Witch Dragon(magic/forest) 1. One large emerald and amethyst 2. Mystery Box: Nether dust/ scroll/ lotus blossom/ one small or large amethyst/emerald
Pumkin Dragon(air/fire) 1. One large topaz and ruby 2. Mystery Box: Nether dust/ scroll/ lotus blossom/one small or large topaz/ruby
Boo Dragon(light/magic) 1. One large pearl and amethyst 2. Mystery Box: Nether dust/ scroll/ lotus blossom/one small or large pearl/amethyst
Seabreeze Dragon(air/water)1. One large topaz and sapphire 2. Mystery Box: Nether dust/ scroll/ lotus blossom/ one small or large topaz/sapphire
Mermaid Dragon(water/forest)1. One large sapphire and emerald 2. Mystery Box: Nether dust/ scroll/ lotus blossom/ one small or large sapphire/emerald
Leopard Dragon(light/air) 1. One large pearl and topaz 2. Mystery Box: Nether dust/ scroll/ lotus blossom/ one small or large sapphire/amethyst

Dream Dragon(light/water) 1. One large pearl and sapphire 2. Mystery Box: Nether dust/ scroll/ lotus blossom/ one small or large sapphire/amethyst

The World Event feature was first released only for IOS players on March, 12 of 2014. The Egyptian Adventure Event was the 1st event.On January, 15 of 2015, TL released a new update for the game to Android users with most of the IOS features, so Android users had their 1st World Event on February, 3 of 2015, Love At First Flight Valentine's Event.

Basic Important Information

When the 3rd World Event was released, TL released the first building that would help the players collecting more items, but the players needed to buy this building from the market so they could receive more 4 items every 4 hours. When the 4th World Event was released, TL changed the rules about this building, they created 2 buildings that give items for this events.The first building gives 4 items every 4 hours and is the first individual prize (any player can buy another in the market), the second building gives 16 items every 4 hours (only available in the market). Sometimes TL decides to double the amount of items this buildings gives for a certain amount of time, so 8 instead of 4, and 32 instead of 16.

The building that give items, when you won from the World Event, you can find this building in the ALL tab in your Storage, you need to place this building in your island so you can start collecting the items every 4 hours. After the event is over, this buildings become decorations.

Every dragon from this events, cannot be breeded, they are "not found through breeding", this is also in the description of every dragon. Olympus Dragon currently is the only exception.

You receive 1 item per hour from Eggs and Harvesting Food. For example:Diamond Dragon egg takes 44 hours, you will receive 44 items when you hatch the egg (you can either hatch the dragon or sell the egg).Scalypears food takes 20 hours, you will receive 20 items when you harvest the food.

The special quest at the Quest Outpost, gives 4 items.
The Dragon can be at any level, there's no minimum level.
Between the 1st and the 8th World Event, the Quest duration was 4 hours.
Between the 9th World Event and the 14th World Event, the Quest duration was 3 hours.
The 15th World Event, the Quest has a duration of 4 hours and gives 5 items.

Fighting in the Battle Arena will give you only 1 item per battle.
When a Battle Tournament is active, you will receive 2 items per battle.

How it works..

Welcome to world events, where you and other Dragon Story players will collect items to earn individual and community prizes!

You can earn items by taking these actions around your Isles:

Hatching dragons from your Nest
Harvesting food at your Farms
Completing a special quest at the Quest Outpost
Fighting in the Battle Arena (levels 30+)

Once you collect enough items to earn the first individual prize, the second individual prize will unlock. After the Dragon Story community collects enough items to earn a community prize, all players who have collected enough items to be eligible will receive it. Your prizes will be placed in your storage. Have Fun!